• Tony Abott was sworn in as new prime minister of Australia

of 92

3. Dr. H.A.B. Parpia, the renowned Food Scientist died

5. Amar Gopal Bose, the Founder of Bose Corporation Passed Away at 83.

6. Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi died in Milan on July 13, 2013.

7. N Rangabashyam,the Padma Bhushan award recipient Gastroenterologist died

8. Samar Mukherjee, the CPI-M Veteran Leader Passed Away at 100

9. Veteran Tamil Film lyricist Vaali Died at the Age of 82

10. Prof. Oommen Mathew, Former MLA form Kuttanad, Kerala died

11. Former Union Minister Khurshed Alam Khan died

12. L Brojeshori Devi, the Olympian Judo Player Passed Away at 32

13. Manjula Vijayakumar, the South Indian Actress died at the Age of 59

14. IMO Secretary-General Emeritus and Padma Vibhushan Awardee, C.P. Srivastava

died in Italy.

15. Arun Nehru, the Former Union Minister and Close Aide of Rajiv Gandhi, Died at 69

16. Obaid Siddiqi, National Research Professor at the National Centre for Biological

Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), died in Bangalore

following a Road Accident.

17. Ilya Segalovich, the Co-Founder of Yandex Died at the Age of 48 Years.

18. Jagdish Raj, the Most Type-Cast Actor of Bollywood Died at 85.

19. SN Hanumantha Rao, the Former Indian Test Umpire Passed Away at 83.

20. Hemendra Prasad Barooah, the Noted Assam Tea Planter Passed Away at 87.

Person In News

1. Dahlan Jumaan Al-Hamad won Asian Athletics Association's President election.

2. India turned down the Snowden's Request for Asylum

3. Vandana Gandhi became First Indian Woman to Receive Prestigious Emirates

Woman Award

4. Adli Mansour Sworn in as the interim President of Egypt

5. 78th Birthday of Dalai Lama celebrated across the World

6. Mohamed ElBaradei named Caretaker PM of Egypt

7. Supreme Court Stayed trial against Lalu Yadav in Fodder Scam

8. HRD Minister M.M. Pallam Raju was Conferred the Honorary Fellowship' by IETE.

9. Nisha Desai Biswal nominated for the Post of Assistant Secretary of State of USA.

10. Sunetra Gupta's Portrait to be exhibited in Britain.

11. High Court of Mumbai charged Salman Khan with Culpable Homicide, not

amounting to Murder in the September 2002, hit-and-run case.

12. Edward Snowden awarded with German Whistleblower Prize

13. Batla House Encounter convict Shahzad Ahmed got Life Sentence

14. Angelina Jolie Declared as the Highest Paid Actress of Hollywood by Forbes.

Conference / Summit

1. HRD Ministry Set up a New Committee to go into the Quality Aspect of the Mid Day

Meal.

3. Neurotrauma Conference 2013 to be held in Assam

Awards

1. Zubin Mehta named for Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony 2013.

London.

of Arts and Letters on 17 July 2013 for the contribution to music.

4. British Firm called Real VNC was presented the MacRobert Award.

5. Paradip Port Conferred With the Major Port of the Year Award.

6. Amjad Ali Khan to get 21st Rajiv Gandhi National Sadhbhavna Award .

Ramon Magsaysay Award 2013

Awarded Uncategorized:

• Habiba Sarobi aged 55,First Female governor of Afgan Province of Bamyan,received the

prestigious Ramon Magsaysay award for the year 2013.She was recognized for promoting

education and woman's right.

• Lahpai Seng Raw,Founder of Myanmar's largest civil society group,has also been honored

with the award for helping people across ethnic groups under conditions of armed conflict.

• The Nepalese group Shakti Samuha (Power Group), formed by survivors of human

trafficking, has recognised for helping fellow victims by setting up halfway homes and

emergency shelters.

Awarded under Emergent Leadership category:

• Ernesto Domingo, a 76-year-old Physician honored for dedicating his career to pushing

for the poor's access to Health services and for groundbreaking and successful advocacy of

neonatal Hepatitis vaccination that has saved millions of lives in the Philippines.

• The Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (Corruption Eradication Commission),

Indonesia's independent anti-corruption Government body, was honored for a 100-

percent conviction rate in the 169 cases it fought between 2004 and 2010, during which it

recovered more than US 80 million dollars in stolen assets.

IIFA Awards 2013

1. Best Film: 'barfi!'

2. Best Actor: Rranbir Kapoor for 'barfi!'

3. Best Female Actor: Vidya Balan for 'kahaani'

4. Best director: Anurag Basu for 'barfi!'

5. Best story: Tani and Anurag basu for 'barfi!'

6. Best actor in a supporting role (male): Annu Kapoor for 'vicky donor'

7. Best actor in a supporting role (female): Anushka Sharma for 'Jab Tak Hai Jaan'

8. Best debut (female): Yami Gautam for 'vicky donor'

9. Best debut (male): Ayushmaan Khurana for 'vicky donor'

10. Best actor in a comic role: Abhishek Bachchan for 'bol bachchan'

11. Best actor in a negative role: Rishi Kapoor from 'agneepath'

12. Best debut director: Gauri Shinde for 'English Vinglish'

13. Best music director: Pritam for 'barfi!'

14. Best lyrics: Amitabh Bhattacharya for 'mujhme kahin' from 'agneepath'

15. Best singer male: Sonu Nigam for 'agneepath'

16. Best singer female: Shreya Ghoshal for 'chikni chameli' from 'agneepath'

17. Best sound design: Shajith Koyeri for 'barfi!'

18. Best background score: Pritam for 'barfi!'

19. Audience choice best jodi of the year: Deepika Padukone - Ranbir Kapoor

20. Digital Star of the Year: Shah Rukh Khan.

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First British governer General : Warren Hastings

First Viceroy : Lord Canning

First British governer General of independent India: Lord Mountbatten

First Chief Justice of India: Harilal Kania

First man to climb mount everest: Tenzing Norgay

First woman to climb mount everest: Bachendri Pal

First Nobel prize winner: Rabindra Nath Tagore in 1913

First MAgsaysay prise winner: Acharya Vinoba Bhave

First president of Indian NAtional congress: W. C. Banergee

First woman president of Indian NAtional congress:Annie Basant

first President to die in office: Dr. Zakir Hussain

first prime minister to lose an election : Indira Gandhi

First talkie film: Alam Ara (1931)

First test tube baby: Indira (baby Harsha)

First deputy Prime Minister: Vallabh Bhai Patel

First Indian to get Oscar: Bhanu Athaiya (for movie "Gandhi")

First woman to swim across english channel: Arati saha

First commander in chief of Independent India: General K. M. Cariappa

First Woman judge of supreme Court: Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi

First Woman Central Minister: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

First woman chief minister of a state: Sucheta Kriplani in UP

First woman Governer: Sarojini NAidu (Nitingale of India)

first woman prime minister: Indira Gandhi

First woman IPS officer: Kiran Bedi (1975)

First woman to reach Antarctica -south pole: Reena Kaushal

First Post office opened at: Kolkata

First satellite launched: Aryabhatta

first pilot: J R D Tata (1929)

first colored cinemascope film: "Pyar ki pyas"

first electric train: Mumbai to Kurla in 1925

first train steamed off from mumbai to thane in 1853

first silent movie : Raja Harishchandra made by Dada Saheb Phalke

first atomic explosion: Pokaran in rajasthan in 1974

first indegenously built satellite : INSAT- 2A in 1992

first nuclear powered submarine : INS Arihant

first indegenously designed and built missile: Prithvi

first mobile police station setup at : Hoshiyarpur

first woman to go to space: KAlpana Chavla

first indian batsman to score five consegutive centuries in 5 test matches : Gautam Gambhir

first newspaper: bengal gazzette

first vernacular daily: samachar darpan

first woman to win miss world title: Reita Faria in 1966

first woman president of United Nations: Vijyalakshmi Pandit

first indian in British Parliament : Dadabhai Naroji

first woman to win nobel prize: Mother Teresa in 1979

first to win miss Universe Title: Shushmita Sen in 1994

first woman pilot of IAF: Harita Deol

first hydro-electric station was setup at: Darjeeling in 1898

first Booker Prize winner: Arundhati Roy

first musician to be awarded Bharat Ratna: M. S. Subhalakshmi

first indian to get bharat ratna: there are 3 people who get in 1954

1. India's First Vice President Dr. Sarvpalli Radhakrishnan

2. Physicist Sir C. V. Raman

3. Lst governer General Chakravarti Rajgopalachari

first person to be awarded Bharat Ratna (posthumously) : Lal Bahadur Shashtri

first and only industrialist to be awarded Bharat Ratna: JRD Tata

First CNG run bus started in : Anandpur Sahib in Rupnagar district (Roper) in the state of Punjab.

first chairman of Prasar Bharti Board: (late) Nikhil Chakravarty

first institution awarded Gandhi Peace PRize: Radhakrishna Mission

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• India's Only coal museum------- Margherita,Assam

• India's Only glass mosque------- Shillong,Meghalaya

• India's Only active volcano------- BarrenIsland, Andaman and Nicobar Island

• India's Only Floating National Park-------Keibul Lamjao National Park, Manipur

• India's Only Floating Lake------- Loktak Lake,Manipur

• India's Only Symphony Orchestra------ -Symphony Orchestra of India, Mumbai

• India's Only Female Wildlife Photographer------- Vasudha Chakravathi

• India's Only two F1 Driver------- NarainKarthikeyan and Karun Chandhok

• India's Only Aircraft carries------- INS Viraat

• India's Only overseas Military Base-------Farkhor Air Base, Tajikistan

• India's Only licenced production and supplyUnit for National Flag------- Karnataka KhadiGramodyoga Samyukta Sangha

• India's Only Satellite Launch Center-------Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh

• India's Only River Island------- Majuli, Assam

• India's Only Stadium with StudentGallery------- Green Park Stadium, Kanpur, UP

• India's Only Handwritten Newspaper------ -The Musalman

• India's Only district borders with fourStates------- Sonbhadra District, UP

• India's only tobacco free village-------Shankarpura, Haryana

• India's Only Cattle Fair------- Sonepur Mela,Bihar

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Longest river (India) Ganges

Longest river (World) Nile

The longest tributary river of India Yamuna

The longest river of the south Godavari

Highest mountain peak Godwin Austin(k2)

Largest lake (Fresh water) Wular lake (Kashmir)

Highest Dam Tehri Dam on Bhagirathi River

Largest Mosque Jama Masjid, Delhi

Longest Road Grand Trunk Road

State with longest coastline Gujarat

Largest railway route Dibrugarh in Assam to Kannyakumari in Tamil Nadu

Longest tunnel Jawahar tunnel (Jammu & Kashmir)

Longest national highway NH-7 which runs from Varanasi to Kanyakumari

Longest Dam Hirakod Dam (Orissa)

Longest River Bride Mahatma Gandhi Setu, Patna

Longest populated city Mumbai (1.60 crore)

Largest Museum National Museum, Kolkata

Largest Delta Sunderban Delta, W. Bengal

Largest Dome Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur (Karnataka)

Largest Zoo Zoological Gardens, Alipur, Kolkata

Largest man-made Lake Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand Dam)

Largest Desert Thar (Rajasthan)

Highest Tower Pitampura Tower, Delhi

Smallest State (Area) Goa

Smallest State (Population) Sikkim

Highest Waterfall Gersoppa waterfall (Karnataka)

Longest Electric railway line From Delhi to Kolkata via Patna

Densest populated State West Bengal

Largest cave temple Kailash temple, Ellora (Maharashtra)

Largest animal Fair Sonepur (Bihar)

Highest Gateway Buland Darwaza, Fatehpur Sikri (Agra)

Biggest Hotel Oberal –Sharaton (Mumbai)

Largest State (Area) Rajasthan

Largest State (Population) Uttar Pradesh

Place of heaviest rainfall Mausinram (Meghalaya)

Largest corridor Rameshwaram temple corridor (Tamil Nadu)

Largest cantilever span bride Howrah Bridge (Kolkata)

Largest forest state M.P.

Highest straight gravity Dam Bhakra Dam

Longest Railway Platform Kharagpur (W. Bengal)

Largest Stadium Salt lake (Yuva Bharti), Kolkata

Largest Port Mumbai

Highest Lake Devatal (Garhwal)

Largest Lake (Saline water) Chika lake,Orissa

Highest Award Bharat Ratna

Highest Gallantry Award Paramveer Chakra

Largest Gurudwara Golden Temple, Amritsar

Deepest river valley Bhagirathi & Alaknanda

State with longest coastline of South India Andhra Pradesh

Longest river which forms estuary Narmada

Largest Church Saint Cathedral (Goa)

Longest Beach Marina Beach, Chennai

Highest Battle field Siachin Glacier

Highest Airport Len (Laddakh)

Largest river island Majuli (Brahmaputra river, Assam)

Largest Planetarium Birla Planetarium

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Current positions:

Attorney General of India Goolam Essaji Vahanvati

Central Vigilance Commissioner Pradeep Kumar

Chairman, ISRO K Radhakrishnan

Chairman, LIC S K Roy

Chairman, NABARD Prakash Bakshi

Chairman, NASSCOM Krishnakumar Natarajan

Chairman, National Knowledge Commission Sam Pitroda

Chairman, Planning Commission Manmohan Singh

Chairman, Press Council of India Markandey Katju

Chairman, Press Trust of India R Lakshmipathy

Chairman, SEBI U K Sinha

Chairman, TRAI Rahul Kullar

Chairman, UIDAI Nandan Nilekani

Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath

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Mr. Universe: Manohar Aich in 1952

Miss World: Reita Faria in 1966. (She was also the first Asian to win the title.)

Miss Asia Pacific: Zeenat Aman in 1970

Miss Intercontinental Pageant: Elizabeth Anita Reddi in 1978

World Miss University: Priyadarshini Pradhan in 1989

Miss Universe: Sushmita Sen in 1994

Mr. International: Aryan Vaid in 2000

Manhunt International: Rajeev Singh in 2001

Miss Tourism International: Candice Pinto in 2001

Mrs. World: Aditi Gowitrikar in 2001

Miss Tourism Queen International: Zabina Abdul Rashid Khan in 2004

Miss Tourism: Priyanka Shah in 2007

Miss Earth: Nicole Faria in 2010

Miss Tourism Queen Of The Year International: Urvashi Rautela in 2011

Miss Asia Pacific World: Himangini Singh Yadu in 2012

First Indian to win any literary award (the Newbery Medal) in the United States, in 1927 for Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon: Dhan Gopal Mukerji

Nirad C. Chaudhuri, first Indian to win a major non-fiction award, the Duff Cooper Prize in the United Kingdom, in 1966 for The Continent of Circe

Man Booker Prize: Arundhati Roy for her novel "The God of Small Things" in the year 1997.

Bhaswati Bhattacharya was the first Indian to speak as Orator at the Harvard University, in the Commencement Exercises in 1993.[3]

Bharat Ratna: Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, C. Rajagopalachari, and C. V. Raman in 1954

Padma Vibhushan: Satyendra Nath Bose, Nand Lal Bose, Zakir Hussain, Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher, Jigme Dorji Wangchuk, V. K. Krishna Menon in 1954

Commandeur of the Order of Arts and Letters: Mrinal Sen[4]

Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters: Sivaji Ganesan

Dadasaheb Phalke Award: Devika Rani in 1969

Ashoka Chakra Award to a civilian: D.K. Jatar (posthumous) and M.C Dixit, captain and co-captain respectively, of the sabotaged plane Kashmir Princess, for "most conspicuous bravery, daring and self-sacrifice"

Magsaysay Award: Vinoba Bhave, 1958

Stalin Peace Prize (now known as Lenin Peace Prize) in 1952-Saifuddin Kitchlew

Oscar for Lifetime Achievement - Satyajit Ray

Nishan-e-Pakistan: Morarji Desai, 1990

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Nicknames Of Indian Cities :- Pink City - Jaipur (Rajastan) Garden City - Bangalore (Karnataka) Diamond City - Surat (Gujarat) Egg city - Namakkal (Tamilnadu) ... Lake City - Udaipur (Rajastan) Sun City - Jodhpur (Rajastan) City of Palaces - Kolkata (West Bengal) Bangle City - Hyderabad (Andra Pradesh) Golden City - Jaisalmer(Rajas ­tan) City of Dawn - Auroville (Pondichery) White City - Udaipur (Rajastan) City of golden Temple - amritsar (Punjab) Twin Cities - Hyderabad and Secundarabad(An ­dra pradesh) Pearl City - Tuticorin (Tamil Nadu) Weavers city - Panipat (Haryana) Temple City - Bhuvaneswar (Orissa) Sandal Wood City - Mysore (Karnataka) City of Blood - Tezpur (Assam) Orange City - Nagpur (Maharashtra) City of seven Islands - Mumbai (Maharashtra)

Q1: Who is MD of International Monetary Fund?--- Christine Lagarde (from France) Q2: Who is President of India- Pranab Mukherjee Q3: Who is Vice President of India---- Mohammad Hamid Ansari Q4: Who is Comptroller Auditor General of India?- Shashi Kant Sharma (wef 23/5/2013)(Earlier it was Vinod K Rai) Q5: Who is Chairman of Rajya Sabha --- Mohammad Hamid Ansari Q6: Who is speaker of Lok Sabha--- Ms Meira Kumari Q7: Who is Chief Justice of India--- P. Sathasivam (wef 19/7/2013; Earlier CJI was Altamas Kabir Q8: Who is Attorney Generalof India--- Goolam E VahanvatiQ9: Who is Solicitor General of India- Mohan ParasaranQ10: Who is Chief Election Commissioner of India--- V SSampat

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Important updates for Cmat.

1. Nagaland on Wednesday became the first state to use the high-tech voter recording system 'Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail' (VVPAT) with Electronic Voting Machines for the by-elections to Noksen Assembly constituency.

2. Chhattisgarh has been selected for this year's prestigious National Literacy Award for the first time since its formation in November 2000.

3. India's northeastern state of Tripura achieved the first position in literacy with 94.65 percent, beating Kerala (93.91 percent), Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar announced in Agartala on Sunday.

4. Government will soon launch Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) to make the country Slum Free.Government has approved 32,230 crore rupees for the implementation of the scheme during 12th Five Year Plan

.5. Veteran midfielder Ritu Rani will lead an 18-member Indian women's hockey team in the eighth Asia Cup to be played in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from September 21 to 27.

6. Serena wins US Open 2013. Leander Paes-Radek Stepanek win US Open men's doubles title. Rafael Nadal beats Novak Djokovic, wins men's singles title

.7. Kerala state government on 5 September 2013 launched an E-payment facility which allows people to pay various utility bills and access government department services online.

8. The ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) of incumbent Prime Minister Hun Sen on 8 September 2013 was reelected to power after winning the Parliamentary Elections held on 28 July 2013

.9. Indian IT Company Wipro Ltd on 7 September 2013 signed agreement with the US-based Kana Software to provide customer service solutions to its global insurers through a joint development centre.

10. Wrestling was approved by the IOC on Sunday as an "additional sport" for 2020.****

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Dance formState(s) of origin

Bharatanatyam-Tamil Nadu

Kathak -Uttar Pradesh

Kathakali - Kerala

Kuchipud - Andhra Pradesh

Manipuri - Manipur

Mohiniyattam - Kerala

Odissi - Odisha

Sattriya - Assam

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Committee in news

Committee Set Up On Uttarakhand Floods: The committee will be headed by AK Ganju (Chairman, Ganga Flood Control Commission, Patna)

2. JS Mathur committee : to revise Newspaper Advertisement Rates.

3. K. Ratna Prabha : Committee on indecent depiction of women in media

4. Mukul Mudgal Committee: looking into US giant Walmart's lobbying activities to enter India

5. Mukul Mudgal Committee: to look at process of film clearance

6. MBN Rao Committee: to prepare the blueprint of India's first women's bank

7. SK Srivastava Committee: to formulate a policy on public-private partnership model to raise coal output

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The Lowland, the book of Jhumpa Lahiri was shortlisted among the six books for the Man Booker Prize 2013. Lowland was published by Bloomsbury. The other five novels shortlisted for the award include:

• We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo published by Chatto & Windus

• The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton published by Granta

• The Harvest by Jim Crace published by Picador

• A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki published by Canongate

• The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín published by Penguin

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Current Affairs : August 2013 [SUMMARY]

Person Appointed

Rajeev Rishi took over as the CMD of Central Bank of India.

• Arundhati Bhattacharya was appointed the managing director and chief financial

officer of the State Bank of India(SBI).

• Raghuram Govind Rajan was on 6 August 2013, appointed as the Governor of the

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for a time period of three years.

• Rakesh Sethi took Charge as Executive Director of Union Bank of India.

• Vinay Mittal appointed as Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) member.

• D.Bala Venkatesh Varma appointed Ambassador to UN Conference on Disarmament.

• Dilip Trivedi appointed Director General of the CRPF on August 17, 2013.

• Ali Akbar Salehi appointed Head of Atomic Energy Organisation in Iran.

• Ratan Thiyam Appointed as the Chairperson of the National School of Drama Society

on August 19, 2013.

• Nishi Vasudeva on 22 August 2013 became the first woman to be selected as the

head of Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL).

• Ashwani Kumar Appointed as Prime Minister's Special Envoy to Japan.

• Justice K.N.Basha Appointed as Chairman of the Intellectual Property Appellate

Tribunal.

• Justice Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana Appointed New Chief Justice of the Delhi High

Court

Person to Visit

to Juba, South Sudan on 08-09 August 2013.

• Foreign Minister of Republic of Chad Moussa Faki Mahamat visited India on 12-13

August 2013.

• Vice President of Afghanistan Mohammed Karim Khalili visited India on 20-22

August 2013.

• The Foreign Minister of Nicaragua, Samuel Santos Lopez paid an official visit to India

since 19 August to 23 August 2013.

• The Foreign Minister of Tuvalu Taukelina Finikaso visited India from 21 to 25

August 2013.

• Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki visited India from 22 to 25 August 2013 as a